Reframing Relevance as 'Social Usefulness': A Comment on Hodgkinson and Starkey's 'Not Simply Returning to the Same Answer Over and Over Again'

British Journal of Management

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 598-604

  Willmott, Hugh ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84869887444     PISSN: 10453172     EISSN: 14678551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8551.2012.00839.x     Document Type: Article

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